Category: Events

On Nov. 30, 2021 Rutgers University Law School Professor Sahar Aziz gave a virtual talk on her recently published book, The Racial Muslim: When Racism Quashes Religious Freedom, which demonstrates how race and religion intersect to create what she calls the “Racial Muslim.” The program was moderated by Tanya Katerí Hernández, Archibald R. Murray Professor of Law at Fordham and presented by Fordham Law’s Center on Race, Law and Justice. In conversation with Aziz at the event was John Tehranian, Paul W. Wildman Chair and Professor of Law at… Continue reading “The Racial Muslim: When Racism Quashes Religious Freedom [Fordham University School of Law]”

Professor Sahar Aziz joined scholars of political science and sociology at Princeton University to examine the how America has changed in the twenty years since the September 11th terrorist attacks. In the panel “Ripples From 9/11: 20 Years Later” hosted by the School of Public and International Affairs, Professor Aziz expounded on the expansion of executive authority and heightened judicial deference has eroded civil liberties for all Americans, and most acutely for Muslim communities.… Continue reading “Ripples From 9/11 [Princeton University]”

In commemoration of the 20th anniversary of the September 11th terrorist attacks, Boston University School of Law hosted a panel to discuss the lasting impacts on civil rights, immigration law, and national security policy. Professor Sahar Aziz offered her insights on the harms suffered by Muslim communities by selective enforcement of national security laws that effectively religious profile them as presumptively suspect.… Continue reading “20 Years Later: Lasting Impacts of 9/11 on Law and Policy [Boston University]”

Professor Sahar Aziz participated in a plenary panel at the Gonzaga University School of Law’s international conference on “Global Perspectives on Black Lives Matter as a Human Rights Movement.” In addressing the transnational linkages between the Black Lives Matter movement and global Islamophobia, Professor Aziz provided a critical race theory analysis to the overlapping systemic forces subordinating Black and Muslim communities in the United States.… Continue reading “Global Perspectives on Black Lives Matter as a Human Rights Movement [Gonzaga University]”

Sahar Aziz participated on the New Jersey Muslim Lawyers Association’s panel entitled African American Muslim History and Impact on February 25, 2021. She discussed with her co-panelists Professor Saleema Snow, Tahirah Amatul-Wadud, and Chundzom Lopez the importance of addressing anti-Black racism within American Muslim communities as these diverse communities engage on cross-racial social justice coalitions.… Continue reading “A Black History Month Discussion [NJMLA]”

Professor Sahar Aziz was invited to give a distinguished lecture on her article “Whosoever Sees an Evil: Muslim Americans’ Human Rights Advocacy” at the International and Comparative Law Center at Indiana University’s McKinney School of Law in February 2020.… Continue reading “International and Comparative Law Center [Indiana University]”

The late Senator Harry Reid hosted a plenary panel “Islam in America” in September 2019 at the University of Nevada School of Law in which Professor Sahar Aziz offered her insights on the threats to religious freedom posed by Islamophobia.… Continue reading “Islam in America [University of Nevada]”

Professor Sahar Aziz gave keynote opening remarks in the conference “Building Resilience in the New Threat Paradigm: Targeted Violence Against People of Faith” in June 2019 at Stockton University and hosted by the Rutgers Miller Center for Community Protection and Resilience. Her remarks, entitled “Connecting the Dots of Hate: Islamophobia and Antisemitism,” analyzed the common stereotypes that perpetuate hate against Muslim and Jewish communities by far right wing groups.… Continue reading “Building Resilience in the New Threat Paradigm [Rutgers University Miller Center]”